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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in elearning technology are empowering students all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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